How does this project impact the wetlands?
Texas GulfLink is very mindful and sensitive to the project’s impact to local wildlife. Texas GulfLink completed extensive environmental and wildlife impact analysis. The project’s construction and installation methodology and techniques will mitigate any impact to wildlife and wetlands as identified by those extensive evaluations.
How will this project be funded?
Texas GulfLink is an infrastructure development firm. Texas GulfLink will construct a safe, economical solution to provide oil producers an option to export their barrels to international buyers. The project will be funded by private equity, encompassing a mixture of both equity and debt financing.
How does this project impact ship traffic?
Texas GulfLink will alleviate Port Freepoint congestion currently caused by vessel to vessel oil lightering.
What happens to the facility in a hurricane?
In the unlikely event of a spill, the facility will deploy on-site oil spill response equipment to immediately respond to the incident. Texas GulfLink will also have strategic relationships with local Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSRO) that will furnish additional resources to ensure that environmental and wildlife impacts are reduced.
What happens if a there is a facility spill?
In the unlikely event of a spill, the facility will deploy on-site oil spill response equipment to immediately respond to the incident. Texas GulfLink will also have strategic relationships with local Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSRO) that will furnish additional resources to ensure that environmental and wildlife impacts are reduced.
What makes Texas GulfLink qualified to operate a facility of this size and magnitude?
Texas GulfLink has assembled a team of subject matter experts that have more that 115 years of combined experience with the design, construction, operations and management of a Deepwater Port. Texas GulfLink will leverage that experience as past prudent operators to ensure a safe and effective port.
Why did Texas GulfLink select Port Freeport?
Port Freeport offers the ideal topography and proximity to the necessary water depth to safely load a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC).
Will this project pull money away from ports?
Texas GulfLink is working with Port Freeport to ensure that the port tenets and surrounding infrastructure are not adversely effected by the construction and operation of this project.
How does this project effect fracking?
Texas GulfLink is an infrastructure development company. We are not involved in the exploration, production, refining or marketing of crude oil. The project will provide a safe and economical conduit for any domestically produced oil barrel to get to its desired marketplace.
Why is the US exporting crude oil but still continues to import crude from the Middle East?
Where is this crude oil going and why don’t we keep it here in the US when we are still importing foreign oil?
The United States is quickly becoming a net exporter of crude oil production. The majority of US oil production is of a light sweet grade, but the majority of the US refining complex is designed to refine heavy sour oil, which is primarily produced in the Middle Eastern part of the world. US refiners can only process a fraction of the domestically produced oil. The rest of the world’s refiners have a growing affinity for the light sweet barrels of US producers. The Texas GulfLink project will not disadvantage local refiners or any of the local employees or vendors.
Will Texas GulfLink employ local contractors?
Where economically and time based appropriate Texas GulfLink will aim to employ locally based contractors, personnel and vendors.
Will the Texas GulfLink project reduce or eliminate the jobs of the local marine vessel operators currently doing offshore lightering?
Texas GulfLink will provide crude oil producers with a safer and effective solution to ship their production to its desired marketplaces.
How many full-time employees will Texas GulfLink employ when the project is operational?
Texas GulfLink will employ between 40-60 full-time personnel.
Will I be able to see the offshore platform when I play on the beach with my kids?
The Texas GulfLink offshore terminal will be nearly 30 miles offshore, preventing line of sight from any citizen on the beach, enjoying time with their family.
Will the Texas GulfLink offshore pipeline be under the ocean floor or on top of the seabed?
The Texas GulfLink offshore pipeline will be buried underneath the Gulf of Mexico sea floor.
What are the National security interests associated with this project?
Texas GulfLink will have an identified security zone, with twenty-four hour, three hundred sixty-five day monitoring surrounding the facility.
Is this oil refined before it is exported?
The oil entering the Texas GulfLink facility will not be refined prior to entering the facility, nor will Texas GulfLink refine the crude before it is loaded for export.
Will the offshore platform be left in the Gulf of Mexico or will it be disassembled when it is decommissioned?
The Texas GulfLink facility will decommission and remove the offshore platform in accordance with industry and agency standards, if the economic environment dictates facility closure.
Where is the oil coming from that will supply your offshore oil project?
The oil entering the Texas GulfLink facility will be domestically produced, primarily originating from West Texas.
What is currently being done with the oil that your project will export?
Current oversupplied production is currently being lightered offshore in state waters for export to destined marketplaces.
Could your offshore oil platform and pipelines have an oil spill like the Macondo disaster and contaminate the Texas Gulf Coast?
Unlike the BP Macondo disaster, Texas GulfLink is not directly tied to production wells. Our facility design will the necessary safety and pipeline protection devices to minimize any potential spill.
